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| New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults |
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| Since 1997 the New Zealand Post has sponsored the Children''s Book Festival and Children''s Book Awards which previously had been sponsored by AIM. The Festival is a nationwide celebration of books for children and young adults and promoting the importance and enjoyment of books and reading. The Awards are presented annually to provide recognition and reward for authors and illustrators of high quality New Zealand books for children and young adults. In 2004 the Awards were renamed The New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults. |
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2010 Picture Book Shortlist |
Cowshed Christmas
Author: Joy Cowley
The classic Christmas story is given a New Zealand twist in this warm and evocative retelling, with gorgeous illustrations by Gavin Bishop. |
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Old Hu-Hu
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Hū-Hū Koroheke
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Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig Goes to Dad's Cafe
Author: Diana Neild
Category: Childrens Fiction - General
Piggity-Wiggity starred in his first story in 2008, in a charming tale about the length of his name. In that story we had an oblique introduction to his dad' s cafe (The Ravenous Snout) but this time Piggity-Wiggity is o ... |
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The Wonky Donkey
Author: Craig Smith
In this very funny, cumulative song, each page tells us something new about the donkey until we end up with a spunky, hanky-panky cranky stinky dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey, which will have children in fits ... |
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The Word Witch
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Nonfiction Shortlist |
Ben and Mark
Author: Christine Fernyhough & John Bougen
This is the true story of Ben and Mark Smith, aged eight and six, who live with their parents Richard and Sheri on Mount White Station, near Arthurs Pass, one of the biggest and most remote stations in the South Island. |
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Dear Alison
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E3 Call Home
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7-10 Days
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Rangitoto
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7-10 Days
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| Willie Apiata, VC
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Junior Fiction Shortlist |
Cry of the Taniwha
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7-10 Days
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Friends
Author: Joy Cowley
A new book of stories about the daily adventures of the popular Snake and Lizard. Snake is elegant and calm, and a little self-centred; Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. Even though they're opposites, they are good ... |
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The Loblolly Boy
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The Mine's Afire!
Author: Susan Battye & Thelma Eakin
Category: Childrens Fiction - Historical
This story is built around the Brunner Mine Disaster of 1896, the biggest industrial accident in New Zealand's history. Tommy Carter is a typical boy living in the West Coast mining community of Dobson in 1896. Most of t ... |
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Sting
Author: Raymond Huber
Category: Childrens Fiction - Animals
An action-packed adventure story about a young honey bee called Ziggy, who feels as though he is an outsider in his own hive. Sent by the Queen on a mission to discover how other bees live, Ziggy begins to unravel the cl ... |
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Young Adult Fiction Shortlist |
Banquo's Son
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The Beginner's Guide to Living
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The Crossing
Author: Mandy Hager
Category: Childrens Fiction - General
The Crossing, the first of the 'Blood of the Lamb' trilogy, is set on a fictional Pacific island, approximately three generations after an apocalyptic event (a solar flare) in 2012 threw the world into complete chaos. At ... |
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Brainjack
Author: Brian Falkner
Category: Childrens Fiction - General
Sam, a teenage computer genius, takes up an invitation to join a secret online convention for the best hackers in the world, and finds himself thrown into a world of international high-risk security and double-crossing t ... |
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The End of the Alphabet
Author: Fleur Beale
Category: Childrens Fiction - General
Ruby Yarrow is a 14 year old who lives in a busy, loving, chaotic family with her mum, stepdad, brother and two little stepbrothers. Ruby feels a bit like a doormat - she has to help out in the family a lot while her bro ... |
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